AEGIS Combat System Optimization through Advanced Modeling of Software-Only Changes

OptTek proposes to research and design strategies for a highly effective simulation optimization and analysis concept that can execute large numbers of parallel simulation runs, identify optimal software-only changes to AAW components, represent explicit performance metric improvements, and integrate with the AEGIS Test Bed (ATB) environment. OptTek will extend and enhance its existing OptDef simulation optimization and analysis toolkit to provide a proof of concept ACS M&S optimizer for ASCM analysis and demonstrate it on a sample optimization scenario. Using a simulation optimization approach, Phase I will explore how software-only changes can impact the performance of the ACS with a specific focus on countering evolving ASCM threats. In later work, this approach will be easily extensible to consider other criteria of interest to the broader ACS missions.To achieve the desired performance improvements of the ACS, OptTek will develop a comprehensive understanding of the ACS AAW components and the M&S suite that represents them within the ATB, determine performance metrics of interest when countering ASCM threats and identify operationally-meaningful scenarios, and develop a proof of concept ACS optimizer to integrate with a test example in the ATB.